The success of the 15-minute city is tightly linked to its implementation in the hyper-connected cities most suited to adopt it, but a sustainable urban transition requires tackling other forms of European urbanisation, namely the extensive peri-urban areas where many people live and work. In these areas, spatial morphologies and networks are not necessarily ready to receive 15-minute city models and governments and communities are not necessarily aligned with their principles. However, interventions to improve quality of life, proximity and accessibility are sorely needed. InPUT advances this effort, by analysing distinct peri-urban types and envisioning place-specific 15-minute settings that fit these diverse contexts. To achieve that, the project moves beyond considering only spatial aspects (TOD, functions, networks) to also examine social aspects, namely governance capacities, which influence investments and priorities, and aspirations of inhabitants, which determine which elements constitute ‘their’ 15-minute city and the desirability of the transformations. Based on a selection of peri-urban areas in four countries, InPUT establishes, together with local stakeholders, a typological catalogue of functional arrangements, mobility networks, governance dynamics and community experiences. That knowledge is then used to co-design place-appropriate spatial visions and strategic transformations enabling 15-minute settings. A third work package evaluates the performance and potential of these emerging visions on the fundamental pathways of the 15-minute city. InPUT clarifies how 15-minute city ideas can be extended and endorsed across Europe towards fairer and more cohesive territories.

Project coordinator: TU Delft

Project partners: Alexander Hamedinger (TU Wien), University of Antwerp (Belgium), University of Porto (Portugal), PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (Netherlands), Ministry of Interior - Space Environment (Netherlands), Hannah Arendt Institute (Belgium), CCDR-N (Portugal), Municipality of Braga (Portugal), SUM - Stadt-Umland-Management (Austria), Vlaams Bouwmeester (Belgium)

Project duration: 01.2024 - 09.2026

Project funding: Driving Urban Transitions Partnership, opens an external URL in a new window

The ACRP-project URBAN HEAT EQUALITY, opens an external URL in a new window focuses Nature-based solutions (NbS) to urban heat islands and their impacts on social equality. The project examines policies that aim at promoting NbS to urban heat in the city of Vienna. NbS run the risk of increasing social inequalities. Based on an analysis of vulnerabilities, policy outputs and impacts on social equality and resilience, the project assesses the integration of vulnerable groups in current and future policy-making.

Project duration: 11.2022 until 02.2025

Funding: Austrian Climate Research Programme – ACRP, Climate & energy fund

Project Collaboration TU Wien: Nadine Haufe, MA, Raphaela Kogler, MA, Fidelia Gartner BSc. B.A.

Project Collaboration BOKU: Max Muhr, M.Sc., Mag. Michael Friesencker, Dr. Patrick Scherhaufer, Dr. Thomas Thaler

Consulting: Dr. Christoph Clar

The FFG-funded "Mobilität der Zukunft" lead project Trans|formator:in aims at piloting transferable approaches for an integrated transformation of public mobility spaces. Based on 7 pilot spaces in Austria, the project will realise the (re)transformation of predominantly car-oriented traffic spaces into attractive mobility spaces and also explicitly initiate the necessary processes of discussion, participation, learning and behavioural changes towards more active mobility in society. You can find further information on the project website., opens an external URL in a new window

Project duration: 09.2022 until 08.2026

Funding: Lead project "Mobilität der Zukunft", FFG-funded

The EU-funded EXIT project aims to explore the manifestations, root causes and implications of socioeconomic inequalities within and between areas that are often referred to as left behind. The three-year project-involving seven universities and four civil society organizations from eight countries–will also propose ways to tackle such inequalities through a rigorous program of cross-disciplinary and multi-actor research with communities on the ground. The project will explore, from an intersectional perspective, how inhabitants, institutions and organizations in these areas perceive, experience and counteract inequalities. The comprehensive program of research and dissemination will enable knowledge sharing and best practice transfer between countries and communities in order to re-strategise their sustainable development and enhance social inclusion.

Project Team TU Wien: Univ. Prof. Dr. Simon Güntner, Dr. Daniele Karasz,  Adrienne Homberger, MA

International Project Partners:

Project Lead: Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Project Partners: Università Ca’Foscari, Italy; Warwick University, UK; Social Action and Innovation Centre (KMOP), Greece; Universidad de Oviedo, Spain; Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; Centre for Social Policy (CSP), Serbia; European Anti-Poverty Network - Spain (EAPN-ES); Aalborg Universitet, Denmark; Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana (ARCI) Italy

Project Duration: 11/2022-10-2025

The housing estate "Siemensstraße" is a large housing estate in Vienna Floridsdorf built in the early 1950s as part of the "Schnellbauprogramm" (rapid construction programme), in which the spheres of life "living" and "working" are closely interwoven due to its connection to local industrial companies. Julia Edthofer deals with gender-specific perspectives on the relationship between care work and gainful employment in this industrial housing context.

The research ties in with the results of a contemporary witness project of the Wiener wohnpartner, opens an external URL in a new window, which clearly showed that while men aged 65+ described a very positive, straightforward employment biography as skilled workers in one of the surrounding industrial companies, located in the district, the women involved did not show such a positive self-image. There is also a gap in social science research here, which Julia Edthofer responds to.

The central question of the research is what contribution social housing as an urban infrastructure can make to reconciling care work and gainful employment. The primary data material is formed by in-depth interviews with mother-daughter couples aged 65+ and 35+ respectively. Of particular interest is whether the transition from Fordist to post-Fordist working conditions, which is clearly reflected in the migration of local industrial companies, can also be traced through women's work biographies.

Project Lead: Julia Edthofer

Project Duration: 09/2021 – 09/2026

Funding: FWF – Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds

Programme: ESPRIT, opens an external URL in a new window – Career Advancement for Postdocs

Project duration: 02/2022-01/2027

SHARED (Social sciences & Humanities for Achieving a Responsible, Equitable and Desirable )GREEN DEAL is a project bringing together 22 leading organisations from across Europe including eight universities, three research institutions, eight network organisations and three SMEs. The partners cover core elements of the European Green Deal cross-cutting priorities such as civil society, democracy, gender, energy, environment, circular economy and innovation. SHARED GREEN DEAL directly addresses European challenges with an aim to share actions, understandings, evidence, insights, responsibilities and benefits across stakeholders including policymakers and civil society. Issues of inclusivity and diversity are at the heart of the project to particularly account for disadvantaged and vulnerable social groups.

SHARED GREEN DEAL is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme and is structured around lessons from a set of 24 social experiments around six priority Green Deal topics. The social experiments will be delivered across different member states, covering different social science and humanities disciplines, with multi-stakeholder, practice-based and policy-science expertise, including gender studies as a key component throughout.

Nadine Haufe and Lucas Barning from the Sociology Research Unit are taking up the role as research leaders of the experiment stream "Schools act for mobility futures" on the Green Deal policy field "Accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility". Partners in the social experiment stream are ICLEI, opens an external URL in a new window, Local Governments for Sustainability Europa, (practice partner) and MRI, opens an external URL in a new window, Metropolitan Research Institute, (research support).

The output includes the development of tools (e.g. an online Green Deal policy tracker) and SHARED GREEN DEAL is expected to deliver changes in societal practises and in the behaviour of individuals, communities, and public and private organisations. Through the development of effective new strategies, SHARED GREEN DEAL will address behavioural change and long-term commitment, trust, social acceptance and buy-in from people, communities and organisations, in support of a responsible, equitable and desirable Green Deal.

Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/06ac151106cf/shared-green-deal, opens an external URL in a new window
Project description (CORDIS): https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101036640/de, opens an external URL in a new window
Twitter: @SharedGreenDeal, opens an external URL in a new window

 

 

 

 

Since 2018, TU Wien and Uni Wien have been organising an annual "ResearchLab New Social Housing" cooperatively and with the financial support of IBA Wien. International researchers are invited to present and discuss their work on changing topics. They also examine the situation in Vienna and comment on current developments and projects in social housing. In 2018, the focus was on the transformation of large housing estates, in 2019 it was on the many facets of the "social" in social housing. In 2020, the ResearchLab was dedicated to local and resident-led strategies for adapting to climate change, and in 2021 the relationship between living and working and other aspects of the hybridisation of housing were examined. In addition to international discussion, the aim of the events is also to network housing research in Vienna.

The ResearchLab has established itself as an important format not only for scientific networking but also for communication with actors in housing policy and social housing. In order to secure this work beyond the IBA presentation year 2022, the Sociology and Housing Research Departments and the Future.Lab at TU Wien have initiated the Research Center "New Social Housing" in cooperation with the Institute of Sociology at Uni Wien, which will begin its work at the end of 2021.

Client: IBA Wien
Project duration: since 2018
Contractor: Institute for Sociology at Uni Wien in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at TU Wien

EXPANDING EXCELLENCE by EXPERIMENTATION (EX3) supports doctoral students for the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning (A+R) who are researching experimentation as a phenomenon, method and instrument of building transformation in their qualification - with institutional and research profile-building added value for the faculty. EX3 sees itself as a ‘real laboratory’ for the successful realisation of dissertation projects and comprehensive career support. In this expanded sense, qualification means the promotion of academic excellence, but also of transdisciplinarity and social impact generation. The institutional added value of EX3 is twofold: on the one hand, the experiences from EX3 flow into the further development of doctoral training for the qualification of ‘transformative talents’ at the faculty. On the other hand, EX3 concretises the concept of excellence for a faculty whose trademark is the combination of research and practice. The content-related examination of experiments as a phenomenon, method and instrument of urban and regional transformation not only serves to promote productive exchange between the doctoral students, but also to visualise and raise the profile of the ‘Experiments for the Transformation of Existing Structures’ knowledge cluster at the faculty.
The group currently comprises six doctoral students from the faculty - Anna Aigner, Andreas Bernögger, Gunnar Grandel, Mara Haas, Lena Hohenkamp and André Krammer - as well as Margaret Haderer and Johannes Suitner as guiding and supporting seniors. In addition, EX3 is supported by internal TU sparring partners in terms of content and institutions and by external local and international experts from science and practice.
At the qualification level, an expanded understanding of excellence will be tested and discussed in three workshops focussing on academic excellence, transdisciplinarity and social impact. The qualification level also includes short, international research stays. At the profiling level (and at the interface to qualification), the qualification work is to be discussed in depth with local and international experts in the context of the expanded concept of excellence as part of a specialist colloquium lasting several days. The specialist colloquium also serves to visualise and raise the profile of transformation research at the Faculty of A+R - a profile that will be further strengthened through a special issue call on the role of experiments in the transformation of A+R as planning and shaping disciplines. At the institutional level, the knowledge gained from the EX3 initiative will be incorporated into the further development of doctoral training and the Faculty of A+R's understanding of excellence via reflection groups.
Central outputs are: a special issue call and a project initiation (both under the primary responsibility of the seniors in the project); five individual paper submissions as part of the qualification work; a book manuscript based on a dissertation and the joint design of a future.lab magazine that reflects the findings from the initiative as well as the institutional and profile-building added value.

Primary contact person: Anna Aigner

Involved doctoral students: Anna Aigner, Andreas Bernögger, Gunnar Grandel, Mara Haas, Lena Hohenkamp and André Krammer

Mentors: Margaret Haderer and Johannes Suitner

Project duration: 09.2024 - 08.2025